Coastwise Arrival

Coastwise Arrivals are voyages to a US port or place without passage outside the US or Canadian EEZs.

A fully crossed table that shows whether transits between two coastal regions are considered ‘overseas’ or ‘coastwise’.

Map illustrating that coastwise arrivals are defined as transits from Last Ports of Call to the Arrival Port that DID NOT cross the combined US and Canadian EEZs. The abbreviations correspond to the following coastal regions: Alaska (AK), East (E), Gulf of Mexico (GM), West (W), Caribbean (CA), Hawaii (HI), Great Lakes (GL), Canadian East (CE), Canadian West (CW), Canadian Great Lakes (CGL), and Canadian North (CN).